Spelling-safe Sites
Where Orthographic Angels do not fear to tread
Lesley Catterall runs her Words! Literacy Club in Geneva, Switzerland, and calls her site, “An information site created for and by Words! members and available for anyone wanting to understand more about the English language.” You’ll be inspired by her personal students’ varied orthographic activities and investigations.
This site is must for everyone to see how richly liberating spelling can be in its own right, completely free of the dead hand of school-imposed programmes or curricular imperatives.
Pete and Susie Bowers announce their site by saying, “At WordWorks we offer a unique and interactive approach to building literacy skills.  We develop children’s reading, comprehension, vocabulary and spelling abilities by teaching them how to investigate the patterns of the written word. We foster the problem-solving skills essential to all areas of academic growth.”
Their thorough grasp of English orthography as it really is infuses all the school- and teacher-based  experiences that they offer and organize.
This is the site to go to if it is specifically orthographic pedagogy that interests you.
Neil Ramsden is a Cambridge mathematician and software consultant who, partly because he is my brother but mainly because he has children of his own, has become interested in orthography from the point of view of his own specialism.
On his site Neil offers  a powerful Word Searcher and an Interactive Suffix Checker, and other interactive checkers.
Word Building and Spelling: Experiments in English Morphology announces itself like this.
  1. This micro-site is for anyone interested in the English writing system, especially in how words represent meaning and how they are put together.
  2. For newcomers, we hope you'll see English orthography in a new way.
  3. For the more experienced, it's here to test ideas or as a resource to help others.
  4. We hope whoever you are, you'll use, enjoy and send us comments on this morphological micro-site.
A ‘spelling-safe’ site is one whose presentation of, and assumptions about, English orthography are in accordance with rigorously established linguistic fact. By definition, therefore, such a site is free of the distortions, misrepresentations and plain untruths about spelling that are peddled by the fads and ideologies of the edubabble establishment, and the deeply-flawed “research” industry that fuels its fallacies.
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